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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

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It’s also revealing that companies always cite an inappropriate or completely unsuitable company culture as a handicap. In addition to the design of the transformation process, carrying out a dedicated cloud migration project is often not enough to achieve the necessary digital change.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

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Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

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These digital trailblazers , as I call them, are vital for digital transformation success, as they can be delegated leadership responsibilities such as the planning, execution, and change management of your digital initiatives. Agile PMOs take on these responsibilities and reduce the frictions that slow teams down.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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He continues: “The CIOs we work with aren’t interested in modernizations that aren’t accretive to the organization’s mission, stakeholders, economics, or culture. Generative AI is also poised to dramatically speed up the whole process, says Rajib Gupta, senior director advisor in Gartner’s IT sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

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Investment in training and change management is critical to the success. The CoE in this phase has to proactively engage ALL stakeholders, making them aware of the change in the mode of operation and guiding the team through training, coffee chats, and CoE sessions during this period of transformation. First, the mean part.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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Cloud computing changes staffing requirements to varying degrees depending on the level and type of adoption. IT leaders may need fewer people managing servers and more people performing higher-level network engineering, systems integration, vendor management, data science, cloud security, or business analysis work.

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

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In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations.